My dear Huxley

Thank Heaven I have almost completed the horrid job of correcting the Descent.² Will you, therefore, send me pretty soon your discussion on the Brain & skull, & please give it some Title. It will come as a supplement to Part I. of Vol I of my book.³ Proofs shall be sent to you of it.

I hope soon to send Vol I to the Printers. And now I want to ask you what is doing about Dohrn’s affair, Has M. Foster taken it up?⁴ I have got one other subscriber in my eldest son, William, for 20^£. I heard the other day from M^r. Grant⁵ just acknowledging my cheque for 120^£, & telling me that Dohrn had just returned from Rome with fever, but was expected soon to be better, & that he w^d. then write to me. If the subscription is attempted, I hope that it may prove tolerably successful, but I cannot help having doubts, there are so many claims on scientific men.⁶

Ever yours | Ch. Darwin